s.... It defeats what I consider to be
the unanswerable advantage of the Anthony Amendment, whose
ratification by the required three-fourths of the States will
force the remaining one-fourth into line. The southern States,
for whose special benefit the Shafroth Amendment appears to have
been conceived, will undoubtedly be many years in accepting woman
suffrage. With this new amendment ratified, they can still hold
it back within their borders as long as they cling to their
prejudices.

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George H. Wright, M.D. (Conn.): The greatest objection is that,
if passed, this amendment would throw the whole suffrage campaign
into chaos. At present when we have carried one State we stop
worrying about that State. The women cannot again be
disfranchised except by an amendment to the State constitution,
which would first have to pass a Legislature elected by the whole
people. No such Legislature would dare to pass such a bill; the
members who voted for it would accomplish nothing and would at
once be ousted by their outraged women constituents. But under
the Shafroth Amendment 8 per cent. of the voters could force a
referendum on the question at any time.... Also a large part of
the effort and money now used to gain new victories would be
spent in defending what we had already won.

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The Rev. Olympia Brown (Wis.), a pioneer suffragist: The passage
of the Shafroth Amendment is spoken of several times in the
explanations and arguments for it as being an "endorsement of
woman suffrage by Congress." "Federal sanction," it is said,
"would dignify the movement." This is another misnomer. There is
no "indorsement" by Congress and no "federal sanction" about it.
There is not even a hint that Congress favors woman suffrage. The
amendment merely provides for the Initiative and Referendum in
the States.

The _Woman's Journal_ lately called attention to the statement
twice made that "the effect of the amendment, if ratified, would
be the same as if every State in the Union had passed a suffrage
amendment." This is a most singular assertion. If every State
adopted a suffrage amendment our work would be done. Again: "The
passage of this resolution would have the same effect